AdMedia Hiring for System Administrator Job at Dubai Full Time

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Job Description:

AdMedia is seeking an experienced Linux System Administrator who is passionate about

infrastructure design to join our Platform Operations team. We leverage our infrastructure with heavy automation for server deployment and provisioning. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys experimenting and thoughtfully architecting systems! You must have strong attention to detail and accuracy and be able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously. This is a full-time, remote position.

Responsibilities:

• Design infrastructure and automation improvements

• Provisioning of servers and environments

• Maintain and improve configuration management templates

• Monitor system performance and respond to alerts

• Take part in on-call rotation

• Support a team of developers and QA engineers

• Participate in software releases and patches

• Ensure compliance with security standards and practices

• Manage user access

• Keep current on relevant technologies; continually push the company and the team

• Leverage the best possible tools and resources

• Secure the operations and data of the applications against theft, loss and/or disasters

• Partner with external services and companies for seamless integration

Required Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• Linux administration experience, minimum of 3 years

• Experience with at least one scripting language (Python, Ruby, Bash, etc)

• Knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, ICMP and other network protocols

• Experience with a web server (Apache, Tomcat, or Nginx)

• Experience with Redis, Memcached

• Experience with Zabbix, Nagios

• Experience with Linux Virtualization (KVM, XEN, VMWare, or AWS)

• MySQL database administration experience

• Proven ability to establish and maintain effective, respectful and trusting relationships with clients (internal and external), consumers and colleagues representing varying needs, personalities and styles

• Must be dedicated to exceeding internal and external customer/consumer expectations and have an unwavering propensity to keep the end user in mind

• Tenacity to deal with ambiguity and to effectively solve problems by embracing highly dynamic, constantly-changing environment

• Capable of assertively voicing opinions and ideas in the spirit of challenging and improving the organization and talent whilst being open and supportive of others’ thoughts and feedback

• Track record of producing great results by taking smart risks and reacting to the business needs in real-time

• Demonstrated ability to work independently with little direction and innate desire to seek out new projects and challenges without prompting

Bonus Qualifications:

• Amazon AWS Services (EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, Route53, ELB, RDS, Cloud Trails, KMS, VPC/SecurityGroups)

• Configuration management experience, including Salt, Chef and/or Puppet

• Exposure to application performance monitoring tools, such as NewRelic, Stackdriver, Graphite and/or Scout

• History working with load balancing technology like HAProxy and/or ELB

• Experience working message broker software, such as RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, and/or AWS SNS

• Redis, Memcached, Elasticsearch knowledge

• Experience with source code control processes (git/GitHub) as well as with Docker

• Exposure to a continuous integration environment (Jenkins, Artifactory, Gradle)

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive Salary (commensurate with experience and skill set)

• Medical Insurance – 100% of EE Premiums Covered

• Paid Company Holidays & Paid Time Off

• Employee Referral Programs

• Trainings & Certifications

• A Friendly & Supportive Culture!

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Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• On call